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THE DALLAS POST Established 1889
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Editor and Publisher
Associate Editors—
. Myra Z. RISLEY
Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks, Leicaron R. Scott, JR.
Social Editor .............. Mgrs. DoroTHY B. ANDERSON
Business Manager ...........s.esxss Doris R. MALLIN
Circulation Manager .............. Mzs. VELMA Davis
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Editorially Speaking;
‘A New Highway—But At What Cost
by DoroTrHY B. ANDERSON
Tt would be little hardship to travel a jammed up
one-way traffic lane at the busy supper ho
It would be simple to crawl along the busy thorouch.
~ fare in the morning when we may have overslept a bit and
the boss is impatient of delays—
It would not be difficult to negotiate a tortuous trail
through road pyramids or empty barrels—
We would not mind the dust nor the gaping holes
along the berms—
, If our children were protected.
We are all indeed in favor of progress, whether it be
a new road, a better school system or more efficient
government
If the result justifies the means and the expenditure.
Until recently everyone complacently accepted the
state announcement that a new highway was at last to
eliminate the deadly curves of the old road—
And then we found out the truth.
Thousands of tax dollars are being spent to build
just slightly over six miles of thoroughfare—
But mot one penny earmarked for safety precautions
for our children.
At three separate points, the youngsters must cross
against an increasing flow of car after car, truck and
trailer.
No over passes, no underpasses.
It will cost a fortune to relocate the Lehight Valley
Railroad tracks which may never be used by the company
now seeking abandonment of the line.
The first contractor had bid $3,168,175 on the high-
way job but construction contract went to another firm
at a price of $184,096 higher than that previously bid or
the staggering amount of $3,352,271.
Yet no money for overpasses or underpasses to guard
our offsprings, innocent pawns in the political maneuver-
ing of qfficials.
Where are our state representatives and what are
they doing about it?
: It would be assuring to see some action on the part of
Senator Flack and Representative Shupnik.
WASHINGTON GRAVY TRAIN
The planners plan and the spenders spend,
And they comb the earth to its utmost end
To find some underdeveloped spot
And give it a billion dollar shot
That will waken its underdeveloped brain
To the full import of “gravy train.”
Refrain
Oh the gravy train is a wondrous thing
A super colossal jigger,
That’s engineered, designed and geared
To carry a super colossal share
Of U. S. dollars to anywhere
* That's underdeveloped bigger.
The spender’s pens dip the golden ink
Then a billion goes while you scarcely wink,
And some plaintive land o’er the bounding main
Lands a lower berth on the gravy train
With dollars given while they relaxes
(And what gives here? - why super taxes).
Refrain
Oh Td love to ferry the gravy train
To a spot, o'er some ocean deep
And yo heave ho o'er the starboard bow
"Till down with my unregretful wishes
It sank to the underdeveloped fishes
And an overdeveloped sleep.
~W. G. Seaman
Only
Yesterday.
Ten, Twenty and Thirty Years
Ago In The Dallas Post
It Happened
30 Years Ago
Wyoming Valley Motor Club. was
campaigning to have Effort Moun-
tain road paved with concrete.
Sweet Valley Fire and Drum |
Corps contributed their services to
the carnival staged by Dallas fire-
men. Bad weather decimated at-
temdance one night, but the carnival
‘was a success and the chicken and
biscuits superb: John Yaple was
general chairman.
Again the water situation” reared
its horrid head in Dallas Borough.
Subscribers were invited to attend
a meeting of Borough Taxpayer's
Association.
Borough schools were expecting
an enrollment of 400, according do
Cal McHose.
Burgess Anderson filed for re-
election, in spite of having frequent-
ly stated that he was not interested.
Filing petitions for tax collector
were Art Dungey, F. M. Gordon,
Donald Frantz, and M. B. Coolbaugh.
Filing for school director: Harry
Pittman, James Ayers, Henry
Disque, and John Durbin.
For Council, Wesley Himmler,
Corey Gordon, Peter D. Clark,
George Stookey, James Franklin,
Harry Garrahan, and Clark Hildé-
brant.
Looked like a hot primary elec-
tion.
Oliver's Garage sold ten big
Dodge trucks to Park’s Bakery.
Things were picking up in Dallas,
and there was expectation that re-
peal of Prohibitiom was in. the wind.
Kitchen Creek with! its beautiful
falls, was attracting recognition all
over the state. Too bad the lovely
spot was not state-owned, was the
feeling. Maybe some day it would
be a state park. (It’s Ricketts Glen
now.) x
Wayne Conklim, 69, of Carverton,
died after a long illness. Luther
Hunsinger, 68, died at Laketon.
You could get ‘two tall cans of
pink salmon for 23 cents, and butter
was two pounds for 47,
It Happened
20 Years Ago
Resigning from the Ration Board
after a stormy session were F. Gor-
don Mathers, Walter Elston, Clyde
N. Lapp, and Dewey L. Edwards,
protesting WPA administration of
OPA.
Cooney Honeywell, 15, had infan-
tile paralysis (polio to you.)
Sneak thieves entered 'Titman’s
ae on Main Street, got a measly
30.
Dallas Water Company closed a
deal for Wallo property on the
Heights, adding the Wallo well to
its supply lines.
Mrs. Hettie Morgan heard from
her som, Clarence, for the first time
in two years, He was a prisoner of
war since fall of the Philippines.
Stronger scented soap in the
men’s washroom at Oliver's was
recommended after a handsome
stranger took a snooze on the bank
of Toby’s Creek and woke up in the
water.
Canning classes were being held
in the Borough high school kitchen.
An editorial against boondoggling
made the front page. (Remember
what boondoggling was?)
Edith Blez was still writing “On
The Sentimental Side;” Javieaich
was writing “Second Thoughts;”
Hix, from a stance in Kingston, was
established as “Pillar to Post.”
From the Outpost: Jack Tribler,
Texas; Framcis Sidorek, Alabama;
Glenn Kitchen, Fort Snelling;
George H. Ray, New Guinea; Wilson
Garinger, Miami; Allen Daniels,
Fitzsimmons; Thomas Swire, Fort
Custer; Byrom Atkinson, Navy; John
Seletsky, Newport News; Lloyd Rog-
ers, Camp Pickett; Loren McCarty,
Jacksonville; Howard Boice, Wash-
ington; Arthur D. Dunn, Seymour
Johnson Field, N. C.
Martha Hadsel was keeping the
servicemen happy by rounding up
correspondents for them, tailoring
blondes and brunettes to fit re-
quirements of lonesome soldiers and
sailors.
Married: Edna Fritz to Dr. Ben-
jamin Shortkroff. Josephine Cros-
sen to Hilbert Edwards.
Died: Frece W. Cragle, 57, Hun-
lock Creek. Mrs, Rosa ‘Shaver, 78,
Trucksville.
An eight-page issue was the norm.
Only once in a blue moon twenty
years ago was there a larger paper.
It Happened
10 Years Ago
Residents were again warned in
Dallas that lack of mailboxes and
numbers on their houses would in-
terfere with house to house delivery
of mail. Many folks missed that
morning walk to the Post Office and
the visit with the neighbors.
Arthur B. Mayo was the new
minister at Trucksville Methodist.
A discussion group at the Library
wag launched, with six Wilkes pro-
fessors signed up.
Dallas got a tailor shop in the old
Post Office building on Main Street,
something residents had been ask-
ing for.
“Snowball” broke the law when
she adopted a baby rabbit. Snowball
couldn’t read, but she did a good
job of nursing the orphan, in spite
of ‘the Game Commissioner's ruling
on keeping wild animals. Cat and
ol
8 | sized pay ($1.75 for a ten hour day)
las a trackman om the section ex-
Ice Cave Hotel to the top of Chest-
ting a new top on Trucksville tres-
years I again entered railroad serv-
(entire Bowman's Creek Branch on
It is possible that the property,
upon which I received my first man-
‘over fifty years ago, may soon be a
thing of the past. I was employed
tending from a point back of the
nut Ridge. We moved about by a
hand-powered car, pulling another
flat truck with tools, ete. After I
crushed a finger between the rail
and a heavy clawbar om the curve
above Devens’ Mill I was laid off.
The big job that summer was put-
tle,
After an absence of about seven
ice. Since that time I rode over the
a track motor car. I also rode pas-
senger trains through in both di-
rections, made numerous short trips
as far as Mountain Springs, also
traveled up and down this part of |
the road on freight trains. For years
I rode passenger trains to and from
work, sometimes one way.
Men of my father’s ‘generation
always said that the railroad had
‘Rambling Around
By The Oldtimer — D. A. Waters
RR NN NN EN RR RE SR NN RN RN NN YY
made Dallas, as compared to other
nearby communities. Prior to the |
railroad “building there were several
villages as large or larger than Dal-
las, equally busy as to mills, hotels, |
stores, blacksmith and wagon shops,
churches, etc., including Huntsville,
where my father lived at the time.
Soon thereafter Dallas forged ahead,
and some of the other towns began
to languish. Between 1880 and 1890
censuses Dallas Borough . increased
143 and Lehman, represented by a
named station, jumped 153. Lake
Township went up 281, while Frank-
lin and Jackson Townships dropped.
No comparison is possible for Kings-
ton Township as several sections
were cut off in the interval.
According to W. P. Ryman in his
History of Dallas Township, Albert
S. Orr started the ball rolling to
build a railroad from Wilkes-Barre
to Harvey's Lake in 1885. He began
by interviewing owners of large
blocks of land and timber asking
them to take stock in such an enter-
prise, ~ estimated to cost up to
$150,000. Many agreed to take the
stock.
Then he went after a right of
way. Some owners gave land at
very little cost, and some made
long-term leases. Om May 30,1886,
Mr. Orr started to grade near the
present Luzerne Lumber Company
with 100 Hungarians, and kept at it.
A month or so later, Albert Lewis,
representing the Lehigh Valley,
bought up. the framchise ' and #he
Lehigh Valley built it as a feeder
line, The first engine entered Dallas
December 9, 1886, but the road was
not open for general business for
several months according to Mr.
Ryman, who was familiar with Dal-
las at the time.
According to a tradition in the
Bulford family, Mrs. Rachel DeLong
Bulford, ' wife of John J. Bulford,
who owned the property on which
Dallas Station stands, was killed by
the first train that entered Dallas
September 12, 1887. - She saw a colt
on the track and started to chase it
off. She was struck by the engine
and killed instantly. Mrs. Bulford
was the mother of Samuel, Foster,
and B. Frank Bulford, grandmother
of several descendants still living in
the area, some mot named Bulford
now, The Bulford home, which
stood where the station is now, was
moved back and is now used by Mrs.
Maude Yeisley.
At first the line extended only to
the vicinity of Harvey's Lake. It
was completed through to Towanda
in 1892, the first official inspection
trip made - through in October,
1892. It was not opened for regular
business until a little later.
The big item of freight in earlier
days was lumber and lumber prod-
ucts such as tanning bark, etc. Then
at Mountain Springs a big business
of harvesting, storing, and shipping
natural ice developed. « Noxen de-
veloped a tannery, originally to use
local bark. A semi-bituminous coal
was mined and shipped from the
vicinity of Lopez and Mildred (Ber-
nice). In ‘dairy areas creameries
shipped milk and products. There
was a general business in flour,
feed, lime, fertilizer and other farm
supplies, machinery, and later autos,
and all kinds of merchandise for
stores and dealers.
For over ten years, the Lehigh
Valley passenger trains were the
only public tramsportation from the
valley, and then the Wilkes-Barre
and Northern was built, a disguise
for an electric trolley line which it
shortly became, and took over most
of the passenger business. The lum-
ber was exhausted, the ice business
ruined by artificial ice, mechanical
and electric refrigeration, etc., and
most of the general merchandise is
now handled by trucks.
The portion between Port Bowk-
ley and Forty-Fort was abandoned
when the river bridge became un-
safe. ‘Since the North Mountain part
of the branch ‘produced very little
traffic, after the lumber and ice
businesses failed, the middle part of
the branch was lifted, piece by
piece. The portion mear Towanda,
called the State Line & Sullivan
Branch, is still in service. It is mow
proposed to abandon track west of
Luzerne.
Better Leighton Never
by Leighton Scott
SALAD
“Salad”, reflected Warshall, as
we stared out over a silent Pike
County Lake. “That's Dallas,
spelled backwards.”
I thought this was a pretty re-
markable response, considering. I
mean, usually, when I go away to
one of these reunion parties, I'm re-
stricted to explaining why so many
of our local place names are stolen
from the wild west — like Wyo-
ming and Dallas.
This time I took along a sample
of our product, and you might be
surprised how something like the
Dallas Post will catch on at a’party
of people who dom’'t even know
where the place is.
I get a certain amount of ribbing
for farm items, and people expect
me to be countrified just because
they never heard of northeastern
Pnnsylvania, amd because they
watched that program on T-V
called ‘Vanishing Breed” and thus
know everything about weekly
newspapers.
So I always talk with a soft
drawl at these parties, and keep
glamcing out at the trees as if 1 ex-
pect some provoking weather sign.
Really, though, it isn’t that easy
to describe the Back Mountain area,
which is many things all wrapped
into one. Lancaster County, for
example, is principally agricultural,
Pike County, where this party hap-
pened, to be for a change, instead
of in the city, principally vacation-
land and lumber.
Here we're a college town aroumd
the mountain from, but not sharing
the geology with, the coal regions,
and containing prize-winning Hol-
stein and Guernsey herds and
Pennsylvania's largest natural lake.
We have industry, and a new high-
way coming, and also a state park
projected.
“Sort of like a salad”, I explained
to Warshall, who was looking
doubtful as he tried to visualize
the community. “Say, where did
you learn that trick of spelling
town names backwards?”
“In the Orient”, he replied.
“Give me another one.”
“Shavertown!”’, 1 yelled trium-
phantly, and watched him trudge
off, mumbling to himself,
Rebel Clean-up
Franklin Township had a handful
of men sympathetic to the Comfed-
ercy in ‘the Civil War. It is reported
other rebel sympathizers came into
the township, joined these men at
Orange Hotel, and “begun to hur-
rah for Jeff Davis”, whereupon the
people of Oramge, led by Myron
Brown and Calvin Dymond, beat
Day Campers at the Back Moun-
tain Branch Town and Country
YMCA concluded their program with
a covered dish dinner at the Back
Mountain “Y” on Tuesday, August
20. Twenty campers participated
in the six weeks Summer activity.
Mrs. Russell Montedonice was
chairman of the committee making
arrangements for the picnic. Also
serving with Mrs. Montedonico were
Mrs. Luther ‘Wismer and Mrs. Clay-
ton Klaboe.
Decorations for the picnic were
Day Campers Conclude Program
them up and ran them out of town.
made by the Day Campers during
their Crafts periods. Crafts instruc-
tors were Mrs. Kenneth Young and
Mrs. Robert Crosson.
Back Mountain: Branch YMCA is
a member of the United Fund of
Wyoming Valley.
Services Held Monday
For Mrs. Anna Hera
Services for Mrs. Anna Hera,
Pioneer Avenue, Shavertown, were
held Monday morning from the
home of her daughter, Mrs, Joseph
Zawloski, Broad Street, Pringle.
A requiem mass was celebrated
in St. Hedwig’s Church, Kingston,
with interment in Mt. Olivet Ceme-
tery, Carverton.
Mrs. Hera, mother of Mrs. Leo
Woidzik, Shavertown, died sudden-
ly Friday morning of a heart at-
tack. She had recently returned
from a visit with relatives.
Born in Poland, Mrs. Hera came
to this country in 1908, settling in
Plymouth. She later moved to King-
ston where she resided for many
years. She came to live with her
daughter, four years ago, following
the death of her husband, Anthony.
In addition to Mrs. Woidzik and
Mrs, Zawloski, she is survived by a
son, Benjamin, E. Somerville, N. J.
There are also, seven grandchildren.
page.
Anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Prank
Ruggles, 60th. Mr. and Mrs. Otis |
I rabbit were centered on the front.
vieve Boyer,
Mrs. Emma Gensel, 90
Dies At Valley Crest
Mrs. Emma Jane Gensel, Heller's
Grove, Trucksville, died early
Wednesday morning at Velley Crest
Home, Wilkes-Barre, where she had
been a patient for the past four
months.
Born in West Nanticoke, Mrs.
Gensel was the daughter of Philip
and Hattie Brown Cragle. Her hus-
band, Peter died in 1947.
She resided with her daughter,
Katherine in Trucksville for the last
fifteen years. She had been in poor
health for the last twelve months
and four months ago suffered a
broken hip from which she never
recovered.
She was a devout Christian, at-
tending regularly services at Dallas
Free Methodist Church, its Ladies’
Aid and church endeavors.
Survivors beside her daughter,
Katherine are sons and daughters,
Mrs. Laura Boone, Lime Ridge;
Charles; Lehman; Willard, Harveys
Lake; Mrs. Stanley Cragle, Hunlock
Creek. Also one sister, Mrs. Gene-
Warren, Ohio; 17
‘grandchildren and 38 ici grand-
~ ! children.
(ing from 7 to 9 Thursday and Fri- |
day evenings, |
Scotts Return After
Visit To Seashore
The D. T. Scotts, Huntsville
Road, have returmed after spending
a week at the shore. Durelle III
joined his family to celebrate his
21st birthday.
Oldest Family
One of the oldest families in
America is the Crispell family, whose
American progenitors came to this
country in 1660, French Huguenots,
and then migrated to Beaumont-
Noxen area in the fourth generat-
ion,
Old State Road
Root Hollow Road was once called
Old State Road, a trail blazed by one
of Gemeral Sullivan’s detachments
in their war against the Six Nations.
Services will be held Saturday at
2 pm., from Bronson Funeral
Home, Sweet Valley with Rev.
Grove Armstrong officiating. View-
From—
Pillar To Post...
By
DALLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
Hix
If a dashboard suggests to you a black leathek upright object
equipped with a whip socket at the right, and with a good view of
a horse’s hindquarters and swishing tail . . .
If you remember when folks
shrieked with laughter . . .
i
ings’...
were sixteen years old . . .
Boy, YOU'RE DATED!
said “twenty-three, skiddoo” and
If you wore a hobble-skirt or a pair of black glove-silk stock-
If your mother told you NEVER to let a boy kiss you unless he
had the wedding ring in his pocket . . .
If you put your hair up and let your skirts down when you
You're at least sixty-five years old, and more than likely seventy,
and the grandchildren may go for your cinnamon buns in a big
way, but they are convinced that you don’t know the answers.
And probably you don't.
And isn’t it a delightful feeling to know that somebody else
must now hold the bag, and give you a breathing spell after so many
years of holding the reins and upon occasion the switch ?
They’re back now, Dale Mos-
ier and John Parry, but their
experiences in Europe after
completing their student as-
signments still make excellent
reading, so here goes for an-
other installment of Dale’s let-
ters to his mother and father,
Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Mosier,
Dallas Township:
We stayed Sunday and Monday
at Wasserburg with a boy whom I
had met in Freiburg when I visited
one of my friends from Louisenlund.
He invited John and me to come
there that weekend. He lives right
cm the lake and showed us around.
It was a real nice family; receptive,
homely (in the domestic sense) and
good down-to-earth people. We
went both mights along the shore to
the village of Wasserburg for a
small walk. Both days were beau-
tiful. We rowed and swam a lot and
just emjoyed the good life.
We are really getting a lot of
varied experiences. Anywhere from
riding first class down to starving
ourselves and sleeping in youth hos-
tels. The youth hostels save us a
lot of money though, because we
can sleep for 50c and get a large
hot supper for another 40c which
carries us through the whole day
for food, except for rolls with mar-
garine and marmalade.
Monday evening my friend went
back to the University but the fam-
ily had us stay on till the mext
morning and then saw us off at
the station. We got on the train
and looked up in our maps amd
youth hostel books where a good
Penns Woods Notebook
Just recently I had the pleasure
of giving a talk and showing a film
on conservation to Scout Troop 231,
Shavertown Methodist Church. 1
hope that we gave every person at
the meeting a good censervation
program, and answered every ques-
tion. .
There was one question to which I
could not give a clear answer. One
of the men at the meeting asked
why the Pennsylvania Game Com-
mission discontinued bounty pay-
ments on foxes during hunting sea-
son ?
I contacted Roy W. Trexler, Su-
pervisor of the Northeast Division
Office of the Pennsylvania Game
Commission. Mr. Trexler told me
that the reason for discontinuing
bounty payments on fox during
hunting season is that they figured
there would be just as many foxes
killed outside hunting season, and
that there would be much too many
killed during hunting season. An-
other reason was that if they did
continue it into hunting season they
would spend much more money
them they were allowed for bounties
of foxes.
I might add that the bounty on
fox is $4 red or grey and bounty on
great horned owl is $5. When you
make a bounty claim you should fol-
low these steps: First furnish correct
information on bounty claim blanks
which can be found at the Game
Commission Offices. The entire body
of the horned owl must be shipped
or presented to ‘the Commission
within 48 hours after killing. The
entire dried or salted skins of foxes
must also be shipped or presented
to the Commission within four
months after killing. The whole
bodies of foxes are not acceptable,
only the skins. If you would like
me to talk to your group, send a
postcard to Penm’s Woods Notebook,
Box 408, Dallas, Pa., 18612.
Visiting In Florida
Mrs. Andrew Denmon and Mrs.
Jane Hazeltine, Pimecrest Avenue
left Saturday on a motor trip to
Florida. They will visit friends at
Daytona. Beach and St. Petersburg
for a two week stay in the southern
state.
Name Omission
dus, East Dallas, was unintemtion-
ally omitted from the guest list at
the shower given for Carol Mae
Storey, Centermoreland, recently
Mrs. Strazdus is the bride-elect’s
aunt. \
First Circuit Preacher
First circuit’ preacher in Franklin
j
‘Township was’ See Peck, early
century. Th ;
nineteenth
‘Parma has
The name of Mrs. August Straz-
Maybe It's Water Over The Dam
Now, But Still Good Reading
place to stay would be. We chose
Bregenz on the Bodensee. It is right
at the foot of the Alps and is fed
by mountain waters. If you look at
the map you can see that it is about
40 miles long and 7 miles wide.
The bathing is fantastic; crystal
clear, clean water of just the right
temperature. 7
I am now in the youth hostel
nursing my sunburn. This was the
first day that I was really out and
it was a scorcher. The bunks are
pretty good though and the food
tasted good. We had all the soup
we wanted plus three small meat §
patties and large servings of maca-
roni and potato salad. We took an
ship ride on part -of the Bodensee to
Meersburg where we saw the oldest
fortress in Germany along with the
old village with the beautiful half-
timbering and ornamental work on
the houses.
We are in Zurich staying with the
parents of John’s meighbors in Hol-
land. ‘We arrived about 3:00 o’clock
after lugging our suitcases about %4
mile. At times like this we begin
to regret that we brought so much
luggage. The family was really ter-
rific. The husband makes all sorts
of things by hand from wood and
plastic. He was very well off for
the size of the shop he had. He had
one worker amd one apprentice, but
they turned out excellent work.
They lived outside of Zurich in a
small town, Stafa; so the first might
they took us in and showed us the
city and took us out to eat. We
were a little disappointed in the
city at first because it had nothing
but nice looking houses about three
stories high and shops. The latter
were only attractive as to what they
contained and the fairly cheap
prices for which they were sold.
We were really impressed by the
friendl'ness - of the Swiss people.
Luckily for me I could speak Ger-
man.
zerland the people speak French an
Italian. I think the Swiss were the
friendliest people I have run into all
year.
Mr, Lips arranged to have us go
through the main factory of Mettler
C., the largest company in the world
for making analytical balances.
The next moming we left for
Goschenen, a small town high up in
the Alps. We staved here two days ¢
in the yquth hostel while doing
some monntain climbing and hiking.
We climbed straight up one peak
for about 2% hours and were so -
tired that we took the path back
down. Tt was a bit steeper than it
first appeared. In all we climbed
about 5 hours strenuously, so we ;
hit the sack early.
Next day we went on the other
side of the valley and climbed up
one of the peaks (about 10.000 feet)
since we had all day. The view of *
the vallev, the peaks on the other 3
side, and the facade of the moun-
tain below vou is tremendous. That
nicht we ate like pigs and went to
bed. I had put holes in the bottom
of both my shoes, but it was well
worth it. Again we exverienced the
Swiss hospitality through ‘the youth
hostel host.
On Sundav we went to Parma to
join my Italian friend whom I met
on the trip during my first two
weeks in Europe. I tried to phone
him but without much luck since I
couldm’t speak Italian. However, I
soon saw him walking toward me.
That is how our luck has been the
whole trip. That night he took us
to Busseto to see a famous opera,
Troubador. Mv friend had to take
pictures for publicity, as you know
he is a professional photographer.
He just walked in and asked to go
up in the bell tower of the town hall
overlooking the whole opera, and
before he finished he had the Mavor
helping him. We sat way up in the
top and heard the opera—just about
this time we ‘thought we were
dreaming. The whole stay here in
been fabulous with
Giovanni.
We spent 2% days in Florence.
You cannot imagine how much art
is located here in this area. We
spent most of the time going
through museums and churches.
However, the concentration of mas-
tervieces there was too much to
absorb in such a short time. We
stayed in the youth hostel which
was the old palace of Mussolini's
mistress; so you can imagine how
great it was. We just about lived
on spaghetti during our stay in Italy,”
but I think we will have to teach
them how to make good pizza. They
‘make their crust about % of am
. inch thick.
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